what kind of camera gear were you working with back then?


Beginning in the 1950s, a Leica Rangefinder and an old Rolleiflex Twin Lens medium format cam- era, which took beautiful negatives. Later on it was Canon SLR cameras. Film, I was using Super Double X, Kodak’s Tri-X Film and Ektachrome. My last film camera was a Canon EOS 1. I went to digital five years ago. Now I’m using a Canon 5D Mark II. I’ve used Canon equipment since they began. The lenses are great.


You used to process your own film when you were work- ing with black and white negatives?


In the early days I did have my own darkroom. I would airmail images to New York where the magazines were. The result was archives of images. It’s very hard to throw away stuff [laughs].


do you have a favorite car that you’ve photographed?


That would be a 1955 Mercedes sports racing car, a very famous car. They only made a few of them. I like old cars, Porsches, Ferraris.


You are essentially a self-taught photographer. what professionals in the field influenced you?


Edward Steichen. Robert Frank. Gene Smith


in contrast to your motorsports imagery, some of your current work features birds in flight. when did the motion of nature come into focus?


In the early 1970s. I discovered shorebirds at Sand Point in Carpinteria. I love watching birds. A lot of my best bird pictures were taken there. My favorite birds are the black-crowned night herons, brown pelicans and elegant terns. What can be more wonderful then capturing an image of a beautiful bird? ¢


summer2010 59


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100